Hyping up the Nerd Cred!This episode is an official Public Meeting.The new West Coast Avengers comic looks great!The Kessel Run vs the Kobiashi Maru (and I am not looking up the actual spelling of those).Some of the new Marvel #1’s look great. Some do not.Thundercats Roar is a thing. Thundercats + OK K.O.! + Adventure Time + Steven Universe.What Dal wants from the DC CW shows next season.The Dark Nights Metal soundtrack is still happening. Soundtracks to comics can be fun. You know, like Acid Washed.Mark Millar wants the first (and only) printing of The Magic Order #1 to be a collector’s item. At any rate that comic will look great.This is our last chance to pitch our SPECTACLE Release Party with Megan Rose Gedris.We close with Acid Washed performing “Acid Washed” from the ACID WASHED EP.

My Boyfriend is a Bear is out now and really fun!!Spectacle by Megan Rose Gedris is out in 2 weeks and we’re having a circus-themed release party for it!Free Comic Book Day 2018 is over, so of course we’re working on Free Comic Book Day 2019. Ideas come out organically in this very discussion. Contest of Challengers has a new logo… borrowed from a current DC comic.DC is starting to offer incentive variants and we’re not really on board with this plan.More and more people are wanting just the DC variant covers each week. We’ve had more people ask for this week’s Suicide Squad variant than we can sell of issues off the shelf. How does that even happen?Young Animal is ending in August.We’ve heard rumors of a few new DC titles and creative team changes.Bud Plant will no longer exhibit at San Diego, after 48 years.Random House is starting their own all-ages graphic novel imprint, and our friend Gina Gagliano is heading it! This is amazing news for the comics industry!John Barber is the new Editor-In-Chief of IDW Publishing.Black Badge is the new BOOM! Studios comic from Matt Kindt and Tyler Jenkins. Thing black op boy and girl scouts.There is a “Men in Comics” panel at TCAF this weekend and it sounds wonderfully hilarious.

Ever wonder just how the comics find their way onto our shelves and into your subscription box? This episode is an in-depth look at how Patrick and Dal spend their Tuesdays, from driving to the warehouse to putting books on the racks, and every step inbetween.Plus, Kent Challenger introduces you to Tarbus the Tardigrade.

Probably the last time we’ll talk about Action Comics #1000. This time, how the Midnight Release went, and how it compares to previous midnight releases.It sure seems like Marvel wants a piece of DC’s Action cover success with all their upcoming Amazing Spider-Man #800 covers (with still more to-be-announced). Too bad they’re going about it in a way that doesn’t help build excitement.X-CLASSIFIED, written and drawn by CLASSIFIED starring CLASSIFIED sure isn’t the way to solicit a title.We really like Esad Ribic’s art, but not his cover to Fantastic Four #1. Lots of new customers in this week couldn’t find our New Releases.INFIDEL #2 is as good as #1, and THE DAMNED #9 is so good! As is BE PREPARED.Michael Kupperman has “All The Answers.”We think our Book Party book club revival is already coming to an end.Helping a colleague work thru his upcoming venture’s early issues as part of a brain trust.Genre-racking was as good of an idea as we hoped it would be.